THE BOTANISTS <>K PHILADELPHIA. 



Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, of the 

 American Association for the Advancement of Science, of 

 the Pennsylvania Historical Society, of the Chester County 

 Historical Society, of tin- American Philosophical Society. 

 he has had abundant opportunity to cultivate science, and 

 >pecially his favorite science, botany. 



AUSTIN CRAIG APQAR. 



Austin Craig Apgar was born at Peapack, Somer.-et 

 County, New York, August 4, 18M.S. His career in science 

 began at the State Normal School of New Jersey, where he 

 has taught botany and zoology from 1866 to 1899. When 

 Professor L. Agassiz opened the summer school at Penikese, 

 Massachusetts, in 1873 and 1874, Professor Apgar availed 

 himself of this opportunity to become acquainted with such 

 men as Professors Agassiz, Burt G. Wilder, A. S. Packard. 

 Edward S. Morse and David S. Jordan. Professor Apgar 

 has taught botany in the summer schools at Glen Falls. 



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New York; Asbury Park, New Jersey; Fort Worth, Texas; 

 Bedford City and Salem, Virginia, and Chicago, Illinois. 

 The following is a list of his books and papers on botany : 



" Plant Analysis." 1*7-1. 



' ' Pocket Key of Trees. ' ' 1891. 



" Tn-cs of the Northern United States." 1892. 



"Extraordinary Vitality of a Girdled Limb." Journal of ilic Trcntim 

 Xntitraf llixforii'iil Sodi'li/, January, 18*9. 



"Study of Plant Life in Onr Schools." Sixteenth Annual Report of 

 the [.VMr./r/.sr//] State Board of At/rirKltiirc, 1888-1889. 



" What Shall l>e Taught in Country Schools to Educate Farmers." 

 Animal L'ejiort oflhe [New Jersey'] State Board of Agriculture, 1M)<I. 



" How to Know Trees. " . I rbor J)ai/ Circular of New York State, 1895. 



